Monterey Bay Aquarium
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- Main entrance in 2016, featuring the remodeled façade and fiberglass smokestacks of the Hovden Cannery
- Aquarium visitors gaze up through large windows into the 28-foot-tall Kelp Forest exhibit, containing giant kelp and a few schools of fishes
- Visitors look through a very large window into an aquarium containing a school of Pacific sardines
- Plumose anemones, a rock scallop, a bat star, sponges, and other cold-water invertebrates native to Monterey Bay
- Pacific coral reef community containing living corals
- African penguins on exhibit
- A circular exhibit at the entrance to the Open Sea wing contains schooling Pacific sardines.
- an exhibit demonstrates the streamlined bodies of Pacific mackerel.
- Pacific sea nettles in a long kreisel tank
- Sheephead fish

